[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2957 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2957

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
     Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2009

  Mr. Space (for himself, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, and Mr. Braley of 
    Iowa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the National 
     Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Health Access Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP 
              AND LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS.

    Subsection (a) of section 338H of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 254q) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purposes of 
carrying out this subpart, there are authorized to be appropriated--
            ``(1) for fiscal year 2010, $432,000,000;
            ``(2) for fiscal year 2011, $518,400,000;
            ``(3) for fiscal year 2012, $622,080,000;
            ``(4) for fiscal year 2013, $746,496,000; and
            ``(5) for fiscal year 2014, $895,795,200.''.
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